Automatic Inclusion of Middleware Performance Attributes into Architectural UML Software Models

@article{citeulike:303060, abstract = {Distributed systems often use a form of communication middleware to cope with different forms of heterogeneity, including geographical spreading of the components, different programming languages and platform architectures, etc. The middleware will, of course, impact the architecture and the performance of the system. This paper presents a model transformation framework to automatically include the architectural impact and the overhead incurred by using a middleware layer between several system components. Using this framework, architects can model the system in a middleware-independent fashion. Accurate, middleware-aware models can then be obtained automatically using a middleware model repository. The actual transformation algorithm will be presented in more detail. The resulting models can be used to obtain performance models of the system. From those performance models, early indications of the system performance can be extracted.}, author = {Verdickt, T. and Dhoedt, B. and Gielen, F. and Demeester, P. }, citeulike-article-id = {303060}, journal = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {framework, middleware, performance, phd, uml}, number = {8}, pages = {695--711}, posted-at = {2005-08-24 23:34:21}, priority = {5}, title = {Automatic Inclusion of Middleware Performance Attributes into Architectural UML Software Models}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=1498773}, volume = {31}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:303060 L3 - citeulike-article-id:303060 N2 - Distributed systems often use a form of communication middleware to cope with different forms of heterogeneity, including geographical spreading of the components, different programming languages and platform architectures, etc. The middleware will, of course, impact the architecture and the performance of the system. This paper presents a model transformation framework to automatically include the architectural impact and the overhead incurred by using a middleware layer between several system components. Using this framework, architects can model the system in a middleware-independent fashion. Accurate, middleware-aware models can then be obtained automatically using a middleware model repository. The actual transformation algorithm will be presented in more detail. The resulting models can be used to obtain performance models of the system. From those performance models, early indications of the system performance can be extracted. IS - 8 JF - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on EP - 711 TI - Automatic Inclusion of Middleware Performance Attributes into Architectural UML Software Models VL - 31 SP - 695 KW - framework KW - middleware KW - performance KW - phd KW - uml AU - Verdickt, T AU - Dhoedt, B AU - Gielen, F AU - Demeester, P PY - 2005/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1498773 ER -